United Nations A/RES/59/254 General Assembly Distr.: General 3 March 2005 Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 38 (a) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2004 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/59/L.33/Rev.1 and Add.1)] 59/254. New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 57/2 of 16 September 2002 on the United Nations Declaration on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, Recalling also its resolution 57/7 of 4 November 2002 on the final review and appraisal of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s and support for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development and resolution 58/233 of 23 December 2003 entitled “New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support”, Bearing in mind that African countries have primary responsibility for their own economic and social development and that the role of national policies and development strategies cannot be overemphasized, also the need for their development efforts to be supported by an enabling international economic environment, and in this regard recalling the support given by the International Conference on Financing for Development to the New Partnership, 1 Having considered the report of the Secretary-General entitled “New Partnership for Africa’s Development: second consolidated report on progress in implementation and international support”, 2 1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;2 2. Reaffirms its full support for the implementation of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development; 3 3. Also reaffirms its full support for the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, adopted at the twenty-sixth special session of the General Assembly on 27 June 2001; 4 _______________ 1 See Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18–22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. 2 A/59/206. 3 A/57/304, annex. 4 Resolution S-26/2, annex. 04-49150